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1 minute ago, LawrenceA said:
I just looked at it, and didn't notice any anime in the top ten.
- The Rules of the Game
- Seven Samurai
- M
- 8 1/2
- Bicycle Thieves
- Persona
- Grand Illusion
- Aguirre, the Wrath of God
- The Battle of Algiers
- The 400 Blows
I do agree that it's boring, though. More of the usual suspects.
Okay not Top 10 but #33 is Spirited Away.
Even as far as foreign animation I'd rather include Fantastic Planet or Tale of Tales.
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1 minute ago, LawrenceA said:
I used to love the Sundance Channel and IFC (Independent Film Channel) during the first several years of their being on the air because they used to show many foreign films, from every time period, unedited and commercial free. I recorded as much from those channels as I did from TCM for awhile. But, alas, they each changed their business model and the channels took a downturn.
Yeah, I don't remember the "commercial free" part but I remember them showing Nights of Cabiria before (albeit with commercials). As for the current state of their network, I don't care for it.
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2 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
Yeah, it's probably his most inaccessible movie. You begin to understand why he was having trouble finding backing for his movies when you watch that one. I think they all have some merit to them, but Dodes'ka-den is among my least favorite. I should mention that Kurosawa is my third favorite filmmaker of all time, so I may be a bit biased.
My least favorite of his films is The Most Beautiful, simply because it's a shallow propaganda piece made during the war, and lacking the artistry in the Sanshiro Sugata films or The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail.
LOL. You're not the only one who dislikes the Most Beautiful apparently. From IMDB -
Akira Kurowsawa's lowest rated film on IMDb.
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On 9/20/2007 at 9:46 AM, Film_Fatale said:
Someone recently did a poll to come up with a list of the 100 top non-English language films (talkies only) ever made.
Here's the top 100:
Yikes, it's all French new wave and samurai/ kung fu movies. Even has an anime in the top 10. Really standard and boring list.
Not "recherche" enough for my taste. 
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On 8/3/2011 at 6:47 PM, dougiezerts said:
I've got an idea: What if there was a cable network devoted entirely to foreign (made outside the US) movies? Perhaps TCM would be involved in setting it up. The films would be shown complete, unedited, without commercials, and subtitled. Perhaps films there were never imported to the US would be shown for the first time, too.
As much as I love that idea it just wouldn't have a large enough audience and wouldn't be able to turn a profit.
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On 3/17/2009 at 9:46 PM, laffite said:
Kurosawa's first color film, Dodes'Ka-den, is finally out on DVD and debuts today on Netflix. A series of vignettes showing life in a slum area. There is no real narrative but the same characters keep showing up. The title is onomatopoetic for the sound of a train as it rolls over the tracks and pertains to the first sequence of the movie in particular, and in a rather sad way, I'm afraid. This movie borders a bit on the depressing but it's easy to keep your head up because this is such a good movie, IMO. This movie doesn't seem to get mentioned much in discussions of K's movies. Maybe it doesn't have a good rep, don't know...but I liked it and am glad to see out on DVD.
I really dislike that one. The r-****-d kid in that one is so annoying and the plot is all over the place.
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On 4/1/2008 at 8:46 PM, ArchieLeech said:
[seven Samurai|http://www.deepfocusreview.com/Reviews/sevensamurai.asp] is his best. I know, I know. That's what everyone says. But seriously, how can you argue. It's like Kurosawa's career built to that point, then after, moves away from it. Not to say that his work before or after is bad. About 99.9% of his films are masterpieces. Just that this was his epitome. It's a movie I never get sick of watching it. It's my one "stranded on island" movie. [This article best explains why. |http://www.deepfocusreview.com/Reviews/sevensamurai.asp]
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Yeah, most action films heavily borrow plot and character elements and cinematography from it. Probably one of the first true action films.
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13 hours ago, Bogie56 said:
My war time 1940's foreign language films are pretty thin but that's okay.
Yeah, the industries were hit hard during the war. I assume when we reach the Italian neorealism and French new wave eras our lists will be a lot longer though.
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Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara in This Land is Mine. The ending to this is so beautiful.
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Poseidon Adventure
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On 2/6/2018 at 5:49 PM, TopBilled said:
LOGAN'S RUN is very watchable. Michael York's excellent...and a young Farrah Fawcett plays an important role.
"Important" but she's only in a few minutes of the film.
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J'accuse
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35 minutes ago, TheCid said:
You missed it. It was on last night. The interesting thing about it is that Jenny Agutter's name now is usually second in listings. For a long time Farah Fawcet-Majors was often listed first or second before Agutter.
No, I did catch it.
Just sharing my thoughts on it and bumping this thread. Also Fawcet was probably just listed for her big celebrity name because she only plays a minor character in the movie.
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On 1/15/2018 at 8:33 PM, sewhite2000 said:
Just like The Maltese Falcon was the first-ever film to be featured on Noir Alley, something of equal stature would need to be the first-ever Bad Movie airing. I suspect if such a program ever came into being on TCM, Plan 9 from Outer Space would get the "honor", although it hasn't aired on TCM in 10 years, so I don't know if they're currently able to get the rights to air it.
Uhhh..... Plan 9 is a public domain film. There are no rights to it....
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On 2/8/2007 at 9:51 PM, dfordoom said:
I liked The Andromeda Strain as well. I don't know how I could have omitted that one from my list.
As for Logan's Run, it's so long since I've seen that my memories of it are rather hazy. Although I do seem to remember that I liked it. I really should watch that one again!
Logan's Run is pretty good. Jenny Agutter was hot in that.
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On 1/1/2018 at 9:04 AM, calvinnme said:
I was watching the original Thin Man on last night's NYE marathon, and this question came up again. At the beginning of the movie Maureen O'Sullivan is talking to her father about her wedding being after Christmas. He is going out of town but mentions her wedding is three months away and he should be back by then. He also mentions that the weather is changing because he feels it in an old war injury in his leg. When Maureen and her fiance go outside it is suddenly snowing. Plus everybody is wearing heavy coats - Maureen O'Sullivan, her fiance, and her father as he steals away in the night after confronting his girlfriend over the stolen bonds. It just seems strange that a major studio like MGM would make such a mistake.
Global warming's been around longer than we thought.
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On 1/27/2018 at 3:40 PM, calvinnme said:
How do you know they are copyright free? I'd love to do that with some of my posts, but most sites do not say whether an image is copyrighted or not. Thanks for your time.
You need the copyright to show a movie on TV. I wouldn't think you would need one for an internet profile.
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6 hours ago, NipkowDisc said:
I think ernest borgnine deserved a best supporting oscar for Rogo in The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno is a great hodgepodge of entertainment...I even think The Swarm and when time ran out are pretty watchable.
While Borgnine was really good in his role the emcee from Cabaret really did it more.
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3 hours ago, Vautrin said:
Perhaps this shows that novels have risen in literary esteem in the last 150 years
or so. Of course Dickens is now regarded as both an author very popular with
the mass audience of his time and as a sophisticated "literary" writer. I doubt either
Grisham or King is in line for a Nobel. That isn't to say they aren't good writers.
I know I've written about this before, but back in the 1990s conservatives were
saying that there was no longer a need for PBS. With the explosion of cable channels,
one or more of them would fill any void left by there being no PBS. One example
mentioned at the time was A&E. That didn't quite work out.
If Bob Dylan can get a Nobel then so can Grisham and King.
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On 1/25/2011 at 1:48 AM, scottman1932 said:
TCM did show TEVYA (1939) about ten years ago, or so.
According to Moviecollector's database TCM has never shown Tevya before.
http://moviecollector.us/reports/TCM_SCHEDULES_SUMMARY_alpha.htm
However, it appears they did show the Light Ahead (1939) in 2006 and 2004 and that is probably what you're thinking of. Green Fields (1937) also appears to have played once in 2004.
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50 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
I don't know how many of you are familiar with the series of books edited by Steven Jay Schneider entitled 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die. It's an eclectic mix of films from all over the world, from all decades, and in all genres. I like that the content isn't intended to be a "best films of all time" list, but rather a list of movies that have had some sort of significant impact on films or society in general, either in their making or boundaries broken or whatever.
I've been trying to see them all for the past few years, actively (hunting them down) or passively (happy when one shows up on the schedule). I'm roughly 1/3 to 3/4 done with them all at this point. As with all things of this nature, you'll agree with some choices while being baffled by others, either by omission or inclusion.
All that being said, Bogie has suggested that I list the foreign language films that are included, in case anyone is interested, and as further viewing recommendations. There have been multiple editions printed (I'm not sure how many), but each time a new edition is put out, new films are included, and since the number must stay at 1001, some titles from the previous edition have to be omitted. However, thanks to the wonder of the internet, I've been able to compile a list of all of the titles that aren't in my edition. This brings the number up to 1191 movies.
Here are the films from the years that we've already covered:
The Silent Era (before 1930)
- A Trip to the Moon (1902), Georges Melies, France
- Les Vampires (1915), Louis Feuillade, France
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Robert Weine, Germany
- The Phantom Carriage (1921), Victor Sjostrom, Sweden
- Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922), Fritz Lang, Germany
- Nosferatu (1922), F.W. Murnau, Germany
- The Smiling Madame Beudet (1922), Germaine Dulac, France
- Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1923), Benjamin Christensen, Denmark/Sweden
- La Roue (1923), Abel Gance, France
- The Last Laugh (1924), F.W. Murnau, Germany
- Strike! (1924), Sergei Eisenstein, USSR
- The Battleship Potemkin (1925), Sergei Eisenstein, USS
- The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), Lotte Reiniger & Carl Koch, Germany
- Metropolis (1927), Fritz Lang, Germany
- Napoleon (1927), Abel Gance, France
- October (1927), Grigori Aleksandrov & Sergei Eisenstein, USSR
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), Carl Theodor Dreyer, France
- Storm Over Asia (1928), Vsevolod Pudovkin, USSR
- Un Chien Andalou (1928), Luis Bunuel, France, short film [I'll include short films with these listings]
- The Man with a Movie Camera (1929), Dziga Vertov, USSR
- Pandora's Box (1929), G.W. Pabst, Germany
- A Throw of Dice (1929), Franz Osten, Germany/India
1930
- The Blue Angel, Josef von Sternberg, Germany
- Earth, Aleksandr Dovzhenko, USSR
- L'age d'Or, Luis Bunuel, France
1931
- A nous la liberte, Rene Clair, France
- La Chienne, Jean Renoir, France
- Le Million, Rene Clair, France
- Limite, Mario Peixoto, Brazil
- M, Fritz Lang, Germany
1932
- Boudu Saved from Drowning, Jean Renoir, France
- Vampyr, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Germany
1933
- Land without Bread, Luis Bunuel, Spain, short film
- Zero for Conduct, Jean Vigo, France, short film
1934
- The Goddess, Wu Yonggang, China
- L'Atalante, Jean Vigo, France
1935
- Triumph of the Will, Leni Riefenstahl, Germany
I'll continue to list them as we progress.
I own this book and the 1001 Classical Recordings book too. It's one of my go to sources for older films along with the TSPDT top 1000.
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The Long Riders
Young Guns
A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines (if you include red westerns)
The Sixth/ Shestoy (same as above)
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On 2/6/2018 at 7:11 AM, Bogie56 said:
Wednesday, February 7
8 p.m. One Million B.C. (1940). Early man vs. dinosaur picture which is good cheesy fun.
I was surprised how little talking was in this. It was almost like a silent movie.
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The Secret Land was very good. The cinematography and shots of the barren, snow covered Antarctic land were beautiful and enchanting.
Even as far as foreign animation I'd rather include Fantastic Planet or Tale of Tales.
Need help finding 1960's Concentration Camp Survivor Film
in Foreign Language Films
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I think you're conflating two films. There is a scene similar to this in Hill 24 Doesn't Answer where the Israeli soldier pulls the shirt off of what he thinks is an Egyptian soldier to see a harkenkreuze tattoo and that the man is an ex-gestapo fighting with the Egyptians.